Leicester At It Yet Again! (11 Viewers)

[HadjiChippo]

Apparently they are that fed up the away end barely celebrated their equaliser last night

I was watching the highlights and assumed that Sky had messed the audio up, it was odd.

 

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[Sick Boy]

Prob the worst fanbase in the entire football league.

 

[Chris1987]

Don't they lose parachute payments if relegated

No but they've taken loans against them already

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Consider yourself corrected.

I believe that the only way the payments stop early is if they get promoted back, or go into administration.

There is no action if they get relegated again, receive a points sanction or (rather annoyingly) breach PSR rules.

As much as I want to see Leicester punished as severely as possible, it just wouldn't seem fair to remove a clubs parachute payments after getting relegated again, even if that would likely be down to poor self-management. You'd still likely have some players on very high wages that you'd be trying to shift while they'd have even lower income to service that in an even lower league. Seems a good way to ensure clubs go out of business.

Now, whether parachute payments should even be a thing, and whether we need other, fairer, ways to safeguard teams relegated from the ridiculousness that is the PL, is a completely different question. But if you get parachute payments in the Championship, you should still get them in L1 (or even L2) as well.